its a prity shit sculpture concidering he is using power tools.

not that using power tools invalidates what you do at all , just i was exspecting something realy nice at the end not a realy average carving.

i mean evan the realy basic African carvings of elephants and people are miles better than this , and that's with out any power tools.

Duly noted Westy.

@westy, You call it mediocre, I call it light-years better than anything -I- could do... ::sigh::

Like Throbbin, I was born with no trace of artistic ability. So I watch any artist, of vitually any degree of talent, with a feeling of bewilderment and awe. Much like I felt as a kid watching David Copperfield and Doug Hennings perform their magic...I have no idea how it's done, and at times, I'd give my left nut to be able to do the same.

baah I bet you could achieve something like this if you spent a good month trying it out.

maby using 3d modaling package, I think most people can achive these sorts of skillz its like singing I think given some time almost anyone can sing a song in tune.

I mean fair enoughf coming up with an abstract concept of a 3d object and then aplying that to another object untill you have achived the object you have in mind is a very hard thing to do , but its really hard to say when sum one has truly achieved what they actually had in there mind.

but yah the basic form of this polor bare could be broken down into maby 30 or so steps that any mupit culd follow , then just repeat aload of times till you can do it well , then make some changes and you have your own bare.

In the end If people can put together Ikea fernature anything is possible.



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@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/westy" title="member since July 25th, 2006" class="profilelink">westy, You call it mediocre, I call it light-years better than anything -I- could do... ::sigh::
Like Throbbin, I was born with no trace of artistic ability. So I watch any artist, of vitually any degree of talent, with a feeling of bewilderment and awe. Much like I felt as a kid watching David Copperfield and Doug Hennings perform their magic...I have no idea how it's done, and at times, I'd give my left nut to be able to do the same.

@westy,

FWIW, I spent a couple weeks going through a bunch of tutorials with Blender (thinking much as you do, that said tools would bring the goal within most people's grasp). At the end of that time, I had turned my brain to mush, and had nothing to show for it but the exact duplicates of the objects created by the step-by-step instructions. Mainly squarish looking snowmen type figures.

Oh, and a -hugely- increased respect for those folks who do that sort of work professionally. My mind just doesn't work in ways that allow me to wrap my head around those concepts. Programming I grok. Making tools for artists is grand (in theory anyway, I haven't done any art tools yet). I have long since realized that coding is my art...and quite a few artists feel the same way about coding that I do about art. I suppose it's a fair trade, more or less.

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